R output is not rendering with Browser/Render Tool

Question

Hello Community,

I am having an issue with rendering an R tool graph using the Render tool, to be specific I'm getting no output (i.e. blank files). I was following the Alteryx blog post here.

The flow is R Tool -> Report Text -> Render Tool. There configurations were:

R Tool*:

library(AlteryxRviz)
library(pairsD3)

fig <- pairsD3(iris[,1:4], group = iris[,5])

renderInComposer(fig, nOutput=3)

Report Text:

(Chosen) Expert Mode: Treate text as Raw PCXML

(Checked) Validate PCXML

Render Tool:

Output Mode: Choose a Specific Output File

Output File: AbsoluteFilePath\report.html

I'm running Alteryx Designer version 2019.4 on Windows 10. Attached on some supplementary images.

*I also tried networkD3, rbokeh, plotly, and several other r packages.

Thanks

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PaulNo · Accepted Answer

Hi @RobesMaGobes,

Thank for posting.

I have tested on my end and I can confirm the behaviour aka report is generated correctly when output is a PCXML. Given that Ranmath's example uses PCXML, I am not sure if any output format is supported. Bear in mind that Alteryx Designer has changed quite a bit since the publication of the article in 2016.

As a workaround, you could save the plot into a HTML file from the R tool itself, using the pairsD3.

Example:

library(AlteryxRviz)
library(pairsD3)

fig <- pairsD3(iris[,1:4], group = iris[,5])
savePairs(fig, "D:/temp/report_r.html",selfcontained=FALSE)

renderInComposer(fig, nOutput=3)

Details about savePairs() are available in package documentation: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pairsD3/pairsD3.pdf

Hope that helps.

Thanks,

PaulN